Berlin Westhafen station
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Other names | Westhafen ( only) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | An der Putlitzbrücke Moabit Moabit, Mitte, Berlin Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Architect | DS100 code BWF | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VBB: Berlin A/5555[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | Ringbahn: 1 October 1898 : 28 August 1961 reopened: 19 December 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | strike: 18 September 1980, officially 28 September 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | 1 February 1929 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous names | 1898-1992 Putlitzstraße | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Berlin Westhafen is a
.Overview
The S-Bahn station was opened in 1898 under the name Putlitzstraße, which is the street on which the station lies. Despite sustaining damage during the
After the Wall fell, S-Bahn services were gradually reinstated. In 1992, the U-Bahn station was renamed Westhafen after the nearby Westhafen port and on its reopening on 19 December 1999, the S-Bahn station also assumed this name. Once one of the least-frequented U-Bahn stations on the network, the whole complex has now won a significance as an interchange between S-Bahn and U-Bahn. In the year 2000, the station was redesigned by artists Françoise Schein and Barbara Reiter: they installed the 1948 text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, juxtaposed with quotes of Heinrich Heine in German and French language.
References
- ^ "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2019.